Anglo-Saxon Conquest It took them about a hundred years to gain control of what we now call England. ( England is Angle-land, named after the Angles, and English is Anglish --the language the Angles spoke.) Wales and Cornwall remained Celtic and unconquered, as did Scotland, which had never been part of Roman Britain, either.
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